CURRENT MISSION

Capture the flag!

ABOUT ME

Sometimes I study, which lately has mostly meant reading and writing about the squatting movement and autonomous feminism. Sometimes I build giant puppets for street protest out of trash, make movies about sexy bicycles, work on a zombie comic, sing folk music about fighting the police, do neighborhood organizing against gentrification and evictions or write zines about how to build community accountability and create safe(R) spaces....

PHILOSOPHY

even though I am not always succeeding to do so, I'm doing my best to stay optimistic: the odds might be against us but, still, I am kind of convinced that resistance is possible :)...

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Lots of great people around Europe let us sleep at their places, then we met some more cool people who stayed with us in Pittsburgh over the last few months. and now I am living with some unexpectedly amazing folks in Berlin who we originally met through couchsurfing!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

my experiences so far were all very nice!

Interests

reading, collective living, music (I sing in a band! and also play a bit of accordion but not so well), crafting, bicycles, activism, anarchism, feminism, queer theory, coffee, destroying capitalism, dumpster diving, urban exploring, vegan cooking, riots, travel, sex education, community accountability. and some other stuff.

• animals
• writing
• singing
• education
• womens rights
• dining
• cooking
• coffee
• vegan
• politics
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• dumpster diving
• drawing
• music
• folk music
• scuba diving
• teaching
• emergency services

Music, Movies, and Books

music: CocoRosie, Joanna Newsom, The Knife, Gogol Bordello, Crass, Bikini Kill, Björk, Beirut, Die Antwoord, Choking Victim, Blackbird Raum, The Blow, Tom Waits, The Talking Heads, David Bowie, The Smiths...

movies: Pink Flamingos, Blue Velvet, Matador, Raspberry Reich, Brazil, Metropolis, the Marriage of Maria Braun, La Haine, Harold & Maude, Come and See, Alice, Female Trouble, Dancer in the Dark. At some point I also spent a rather large amount of time deep in a library basement watching very old German films from the Weimar and before...

authors: David Foster Wallace, George Saunders, Franz Kafka, Italo Calvino, Borges, Philip Roth, Dostoevsky, David Harvey, Valerie Solanas, Deleuze... and many other things!

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

fording streams in the alps barefoot, no brakes in a snowstorm in quebec city (i was definitely amazed)...

Teach, Learn, Share

I can cook some tasty vegan food with too much spices in it in very large quantities, make some weird sounds come out of a saw and draw pictures of animals? I also like to talk/do politics but that is not really something where learning and teaching are separate.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Palestine, Russian Federation, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, United States